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Lead On Jan. 3, 2026, Hannah C. Dugan, a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, submitted her resignation to Governor Tony Evers after a federal jury last month convicted her on a felony obstruction charge. The conviction arose from an incident in which federal agents attempted to arrest an undocumented immigrant and prosecutors say Dugan intervened. … Read more

Updated Jan. 3, 2026, 1:30 PM EST — President Donald Trump announced from Mar-a-Lago that U.S. forces carried out overnight strikes in Venezuela that resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro. Trump described the operation as an “assault like people have not seen since World War II,” said no U.S. service members were killed, … Read more

Lead: A preliminary magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck southern Mexico on Jan. 2, 2026, centered near San Marcos in Guerrero, briefly interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum’s first news briefing of the year as seismic alarms sounded. The tremor was felt in Acapulco and Mexico City; Guerrero civil defense reported landslides on roads around Acapulco while initial checks found … Read more

Saturday’s matchup between the Carolina Panthers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers will determine whether Carolina ends a decade-long absence from the top of the NFC South or Tampa Bay extends a run of dominance. A Panthers win — or an Atlanta Falcons upset of the New Orleans Saints on Sunday — hands Carolina its first division … Read more

Lead On Jan. 3, 2026, Virgin Voyages announced travel disruptions affecting sailors disembarking in San Juan after local authorities reported a temporary closure of Puerto Rico airspace to U.S. carriers due to military activity in Venezuela. The advisory affects U.S. airline flights into and out of San Juan and may disrupt connections for some passengers. … Read more

Lead: On 3 January 2026, former US president Donald Trump announced a “large-scale strike” in Venezuela in which troops, he said, captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores; both have since been indicted in New York on terrorism and drug charges. The claim that Maduro runs a “narco-terrorist organisation” was cited by US … Read more

On 3 January 2026, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, 63, was removed from power after a US special forces operation that seized him and transported him out of the country. Maduro, who led Venezuela for 13 years and eight months, now faces indictment in the United States on narcotics-related charges and a likely long prison term. … Read more

Jan. 3, 2026 — A small web project called Foldy Bird, created by @rebane2001, converts a foldable phone’s hinge motion into the game’s sole control: fold or unfold to make the bird jump. The Chrome-based game runs only on Android foldables and is hosted at lyra.horse/fun/foldy-bird/. Early tests show it works on the Galaxy Z … Read more

Lead: In December 2024, 42-year-old Ameilia Boodoosingh Gopie—who had struggled with postpartum depression after giving birth in August 2022—missed routine health visits and only pursued care after a shaving cut became infected. A primary care reminder prompted a mammogram that returned abnormal results; additional testing on Christmas Eve confirmed Stage III, triple-positive breast cancer that … Read more

Lead Week 18 delivers high stakes: four division titles and both conference top seeds are unsettled, while Myles Garrett stands one sack shy of the single-season record (22.5) as the Browns visit the Bengals on Sunday. The AFC North winner will be decided Sunday night in Baltimore-Pittsburgh, a game that could intensify coaching scrutiny for … Read more

Tonight’s pre-dawn sky brings the first major meteor display of 2026 as the Quadrantid shower reaches its brief peak before dawn on Jan. 4, 2026. Observers across the Northern Hemisphere — especially locations north of 51° latitude — can expect the radiant to climb from the northern horizon into the late pre-dawn sky, but visibility … Read more

The NFL’s end-of-regular-season churn has already begun, with trades, injuries and looming coaching decisions reshaping front offices and rosters ahead of the playoffs. In late December Micah Parsons declared he wanted out of Dallas; by weeks later he had been traded to Green Bay and then suffered an ACL tear on Dec. 14 that required … Read more

Lead: On January 3, 2026, President Donald Trump announced that U.S. forces had executed a “large-scale strike” in Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The claim followed early-morning explosions in Caracas and images of smoke and fire in the night sky. Trump and U.S. officials said the operation relied on … Read more

Lead: On January 4, 2026, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. local time, Piplup will be the featured Pokémon for Pokémon GO’s January 2026 Community Day Classic, appearing far more often in the wild and at lure-boosted PokéStops. Trainers have a chance to encounter Shiny Piplup or Piplup with a Special Background, and evolving Prinplup into … Read more

Lead On a Saturday morning in October, 29-year-old Park Jihyun left her Seoul apartment at 5:30 a.m., ran five miles and arrived ready to rave at a coffee shop event that began with DJs and iced americanos instead of alcohol. The Seoul Morning Coffee Club (SMCC) launched its Coffee Rave in May and now draws … Read more